Hello Premier Photo-Op
Ten Habits of Incompetent Managers, Margaret Heffernan, Fast Company Bias against action: There are always plenty of reasons not to take a decision… People who don’t make mistakes generally don’t…
Norman Farrell
Bring on the consultants, part 1
How CEOs Jack Up their Pay, Kimberly Weisul, Editor & Founder of One Thing New: “(MoneyWatch) Poor, downtrodden, underpaid CEOs finally have someone they can turn to in their hour…
RCMP change not welcome after all
Almost two months ago, I wrote Rewarding incompetence and stated my hope that, under its new leader, RCMP had turned a corner toward an era of accountability and respectability: “That…
Failing healthcare managers paid handsomely
Doctors vow to take back Royal Columbian ER, Tara Carman, Vancouver Sun, February 7, 2012 “Emergency-room doctors at Royal Columbian hospital served notice to administrators Monday they will no longer…
BC Liberal motto: Be Prepared
A REPLAY from March 1, 2011 ER doc takes a coffee break CBC News item: Staff at Royal Columbian Hospital near Vancouver were forced to turn the facility’s Tim Hortons…
I-RO-NY [ ahy-ruh-nee ]
The REPLAY below from September 2010 seems particularly relevant after Jonathan Fowlie exposed the story of HST pamphlets going from printer to shredder by the truckload. The original waste is…
Uncomfortable parallels
While a mere teenager when Richard Nixon was elected to a second term, Stephen Harper had found a mentor. A few decades later, empowered by a majority in parliament, the…
Comparing football and baseball
In an event that proceeds so slowly, it may not end until next week, America celebrates couch potatoes and gladiators. It is a good time to remember George Carlin:
REPLAY: Liberal plan of action
Reader Lorne Finlayson provided this to us a year ago. However, he didn’t indicate when the change would take place. Is the time growing close? Being in either a realistic,…
Talking tough with empty words and an empty head
Is there anything more laughable than a politician trained in nothing providing direction to executives of the province’s $14-billion dollar monopoly insurer. Speaking to ICBC, British Columbia’s chief law officer…
Don’t miss The Real Story
Ian Reid poses questions about the sale of BC Rail, among them is BC Rail: who knew what, when? Don’t miss Ian’s series. Like many other deals constructed by the…
Questions about oily business aims
Good thing we have the Tyee and other independent media. If we did not, politicians and industrialists would have an unrestricted pass to conduct business in ways that best line…
CBC pained by public reaction
Jennifer McGuire is general manager and editor in chief of CBC News. Today, with no shortage of hubris, she posted a defence that attempts to explain the broadcaster’s determination to…
BC’s income disparity worst in nation
Look past the political rhetoric, the paid advertisements and the work of reporters shilling for the B.C. Liberals. Look at information generated by the provincial government’s own statistical agency. It…
Setting economic policy for Canada’s west
China Cheats: Push May Come To Shove, Robert Borosage, Campaign for America’s Future “China cheats – it openly flouts trade laws – and routinely denies it. It restricts access to…
Harper, the anti-democrat
Terry Glavin: Scrutinizing Canada’s pipeline to Beijing, Terry Glavin, National Post – one of the most powerful pieces in recent memory: “Canada is at the brink of a radical shift…
Gerald Amos on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway
NO APOLOGY FORTHCOMING by Gerald Amos, January 8, 2012 “Recently there has been a lot of criticism by supporters of the tar sands, and oil industry front groups, of Canadian…
What Enbridge will bring to coastal BC
Oil spill in Dalian, China, Boston Globe July 2010, in the northeastern port city of Dalian, China, two oil pipelines exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and…
What happened to Canada?
Corporations Have No Use for Borders, Chris Hedges, Truthdig “What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became…
Downstream, from Babelgum
The first original production by and for Babelgum, Downstream focuses on the controversy surrounding the development of Alberta’s oil sands. This beautifully photographed documentary is an eye-opening investigation into one…